Prevention
Pediatric sports medicine is concerned with the early preventive and curative evaluation of risk conditions for prepubescent and adolescent young athletes who participate in both noncompetitive and competitive sports.
Pediatric sports medicine
Sports medicine targets young athletes to assess their at-risk conditions.
What is evaluated
- Cardiovascular screening: evaluation with baseline ECG and possibly under exercise on the cycle ergometer to assess any sport-related cardiovascular risk conditions.
- Pulmonary screening: assessment of pulmonary function with baseline spirometry and possibly after exertion to rule out asthmatic conditions exacerbated by exertion.
- Postural defects: posture analysis with scoliometer and podoscope, aimed at early screening for kyphoscoliotic vices and postural decompensation.
- Growth pains: osteochondritis at the level of growth cartilage.
- Body mass analysis: by bioimpedance analysis, fat mass and lean mass are assessed to correct any overweight or underweight conditions.
- Auxologic evaluation: through pubertal stage analysis with possible bone age study, growth delays and precocious puberty that could create imbalances in competitive sports are evaluated.
In collaboration with other specialists, interdisciplinary consultations (cardiology, orthopedics, endocrinology, pulmonology and pediatric neurology) are offered for the care of patients with complex risk conditions who wish to practice sports (multidisciplinary assessment of the judgment of fitness or unsuitability for competitive and non-competitive sports practice).
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The original version is the page in Italian.
